[Translate] Bloomberg By Mark Drajem – Oct 11, drug 2012 2:45 PM PT Tests of drinking water near a natural-gas drilling site in Wyoming back up findings that established the first link by the federal government between hydraulic fracturing and tainted water, the Environmental Protection Agency said. The EPA yesterday issued its follow-up analyses of two test wells it drilled in Pavillion and of five residents’ water wells, saying the pollutants it found were “consistent” with the results last year used to establish that connection to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Water quality in Pavillion, Wyoming, has attracted national attention since the EPA’s draft report in December showed that fracking may have contaminated homeowners’ water. “If it’s possible here, then it’s possible elsewhere as well, and that’s why the gas industry and some state governments...

[Translate] Power Trip: The Story of America’s Love Affair with Energy by Amanda Little Synopses & Reviews Publisher Comments: In the tradition of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation and Thomas L. Friedmam’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded, prominent journalist Amanda Little maps out the history and future of America’s energy addiction in a wonk-free, big-picture, solutions-oriented adventure story.After covering the environment and energy beat for more than a decade, Amanda Little decided that the only way to really understand America’s energy crisis was to travel into the heart of it. She embarks on a daring cross-country power trip, and describes in vivid, fast-paced prose the most extreme and exciting frontiers of our energy landscape.At her side we visit an offshore oil rig, the cornfields of Kansas, the Pentagon’s fuel-logistics division, the Talladega Superspeedway, New...

[Translate] 21 Sep 2012 4:42 PM By Philip Bump “I am here to drill up your ocean.” (Photo by Fabio DiLupo.)Embarrassing clown show Shell Oil is floating around the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Alaska, doctor probably in poorly patched inner tubes while wearing those beer-can-straw hats. If you don’t remember the full history of the company’s sheer ineptitude in the area, sale it’s here. It is perfectly fair to assume that it hired a bunch of interns, buy cialis bought three rowboats and an augur, and gave Arctic drilling a shot.Anyway, yesterday the company was granted yet another permit to poke around on the floor of the ocean near Alaska. Like a kid who’s just coming off being grounded, it’s on a short leash — only allowed to drill into shallow areas...